Diane Trap (trap@Mail.Libs.UGA.EDU)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:42:31 -0400 (EDT)
> Just a couple of questions:
>
> 1) how much right do you think Quentin Tarrantino
has to use the title Pulp
> Fiction for his movie? I mean, is that movie really
an homage to the genre,
> or just a collection of gore and violence and
general mayhem?
A definition of the term "pulp fiction" is displayed at the
beginning of the movie, as if to say "This movie is a piece
of pulp fiction (so it probably shouldn't be taken too
seriously)." Not homage to anything, just 'nineties
self-referential irony.
-----Diane Trap
trap@mail.libs.uga.edu
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